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| Nora Carswell TVIS Project Manager Division of State and Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
Nora Carswell works in the
HRSA/MCHB Division of State and Community Health and is serving as the IT
Project Manager overseeing the recent development and deployment of the new
Title V Information System. Ms. Carswell has over twenty years of project
management experience in the areas of information technology (IT) capital
planning and investment control, system development lifecycle, and information
systems training design and development. | | | Ashley Hirai, PhD Senior Scientist Office of Epidemiology & Research, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
Ashley Hirai is a Senior
Scientist in the Office of Epidemiology and Research at the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau. In this role, she applies data and analytic expertise to inform,
monitor, and evaluate various programs and initiatives including the Block
Grant Transformation, the Infant Mortality CoIIN, and Healthy Start. Dr. Hirai
also oversees an annual training course in MCH Epidemiology for state and local
analysts and conducts applied research focusing on perinatal trends and
disparities. Prior to joining MCHB, she worked as an epidemiologist for the
Hawai’i Health Department and completed an Academy Health postdoctoral
fellowship at the National Center for Health Statistics. She holds a PhD from
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with dual training in
demography and perinatal epidemiology. | | | Michael Kenny, MS Public Health Analyst III Division of Health Surveillance (Public Health Statistics), Vermont Department of Health
Michael Kenny, MS, is the public
health analyst in charge of analyzing data for the Title V block grant at the
Vermont Department of Health, supported by the State Systems Development
Initiative (SSDI) program. Additional projects have included claims data
analysis, and analyses of WIC program and school health survey data. He
received Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and in
Biostatistics from the University of Vermont, where he worked for many years in
the Department of Medical Biostatistics as a statistical consultant. In the
past, he worked extensively with the Vermont Oxford Network, a nonprofit
voluntary collaboration of health care professionals working together as an
interdisciplinary community to change the landscape of neonatal care. When not
working, he enjoys spending time reading, drinking coffee in Burlington’s
coffee houses and building computers for friends and family members. | | | Michele Lawler, MS, RD Director Division of State and Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
Michele Lawler is currently the
Director in the Division of State and Community Health (DSCH).In that role, she provides national
leadership, direction and administrative oversight for the State Title V
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant Program.She also provides programmatic oversight for the
State Systems Development Initiative (SSDI) Grant Program and three MCH
partnership cooperative agreements. Among its many functions, DSCH serves as
the Federal Government’s primary liaison with each of the 59 State and
jurisdictional MCH programs. | |
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